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scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Canada seems to have re-elected it's incumbent Prime Minister, perhaps helped by a bizarre post from POTUS 47, suggesting that everyone vote for him and make Canada the 51st State, which went about as well as you might imagine.
"The Well" was another cracking Doctor Who episode, amping up the creepy tension at every opportunity, a superb performance from Rose Ayling-Ellis and anything else would be a spoiler so I'll keep quiet.
Andor Season 2 launched with a three episode drop which seems... excessive perhaps, but appears to have been well received. I've still to finish season 1 (though I will) so I can't judge.
In my "Working my way down through the extensive piles of books I accumulate" I've finally hit the "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief" collection and am LOVING it. I know I've read a few over the years, but not his first adventure, and how can you NOT immediately warm to a gentleman rogue who steals only from the wealthy, does no violence, and is introduced in the first three pages as the man who "one night, after breaking into Baron Schormann's, had gone away empty handed, leaving his visiting card, with these words added in pencil I shall return when your things are genuine." ?
And in the world of vaguely unsettling... all right, VERY unsettling adverts, may I present the new offerings from Scotland's soft drink Irn-Bru - for their limited run "Nessie Nectar" and "Unicorn Tears". If you choose to watch them, that's on you!
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Canada seems to have re-elected it's incumbent Prime Minister, perhaps helped by a bizarre post from POTUS 47, suggesting that everyone vote for him and make Canada the 51st State, which went about as well as you might imagine.
"The Well" was another cracking Doctor Who episode, amping up the creepy tension at every opportunity, a superb performance from Rose Ayling-Ellis and anything else would be a spoiler so I'll keep quiet.
Andor Season 2 launched with a three episode drop which seems... excessive perhaps, but appears to have been well received. I've still to finish season 1 (though I will) so I can't judge.
In my "Working my way down through the extensive piles of books I accumulate" I've finally hit the "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief" collection and am LOVING it. I know I've read a few over the years, but not his first adventure, and how can you NOT immediately warm to a gentleman rogue who steals only from the wealthy, does no violence, and is introduced in the first three pages as the man who "one night, after breaking into Baron Schormann's, had gone away empty handed, leaving his visiting card, with these words added in pencil I shall return when your things are genuine." ?
And in the world of vaguely unsettling... all right, VERY unsettling adverts, may I present the new offerings from Scotland's soft drink Irn-Bru - for their limited run "Nessie Nectar" and "Unicorn Tears". If you choose to watch them, that's on you!
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Date: 2025-04-29 04:21 pm (UTC)And yet they still sell out of the free samples by ten o'clock on the day.
A surge of business brought on by the day and it being a weekend when there's higher footfall, or them just not ordering enough? I think yes.
("Well why not just politely ask if there's a specific one you're after?" Okay, fine. I'll do that, once I get over my severe and crippling fear of asking strangers for stuff. But it's been several decades now, so that's not any time soon.)
Much fun with Amazon deliveries yesterday. Two parcels which go from a ten minute drive away to some ludicrously circuitous route around the next city over.
Sigh.
Got one of the Star Wars Epic Collections.
Yaddle's backstory.
Maul's lightsaber's backstory.
Angry turtles attack the Republic and try to attack the Jedi Temple.
Qui-Gon decapitates a head of state for eating peo- wait, WHAT?!
... yeah, he straight up decapitates someone. Qui-Gon does not mess around. But that's pretty extreme. And the story just sort of stops there, so no-one comments on that part.
First reviews from Thunderboltsasterisktrademark are coming in. They sound... good?
Very suspicious.
Watched the premier of Andor.
I'd forgotten how slow the pacing can get.
And, as usual, Mon "Funky Winkerbean" Motha's plot consists of pain, misery, failure, uselessness, castigation and humiliation.
Just let the poor woman have one, single, solid, unqualified success, you bastards.
(Mon's daughter sucks. She really sucks. And the idea that when Mon goes on the run she's probably going to be grabbed by the Empire isn't a consolation because even the most obnoxious teenaged brat doesn't deserve that.)
Not sure if the creatures at the end of the second episode being called "doodars" lessens from the grim, serious tone the series is going for, or enhances the mad, farcical one of Cassian's situation at that point.
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Date: 2025-04-29 04:46 pm (UTC)But overall, it's good, just not as sliced-bread-slaying as the entirety of the Internet keeps telling me it is.
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Date: 2025-04-29 06:59 pm (UTC)(I'm just waiting for K2, but guessing he probably won't show until towards or just at the very end.)
At least the dinner scene is supposed to be intentionally horrible and awkward, even without one of the parties being the member of an imperial propaganda machine.
(Egad! Her table manners! *swoon*)
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Date: 2025-04-30 04:52 pm (UTC)